Alcestis

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.

  1. Now too hath he opened wide his house and welcomed a guest although his eye is wet with tears in mourning for his wife so dear
  2. but lately dead within his halls; yea, for noble birth to noble feeling is inclined.[*](In Nauck’s text the word ἄγαμαι is here inserted, but it is omitted by Paley.) And in the good completest wisdom dwells; and at my heart sits the bold belief
  3. that heaven’s servant will be .
Admetus
  1. Men of Pherae, kindly gathered here, lo! even now my servants are bearing the corpse with all its trappings
    shoulder-high to the funeral pyre for burial; do ye, as custom bids,
  2. salute the dead on her last journey starting.